OK, I had a certain filk song in mind for my students to record. You know, filk? I see filk artists every year at I-CON. Filking is like Karaoke, except you take a popular folk song and change the words. Usually, a filk song pokes fun at something or is satirical. At I-CON, you'll see filk making fun of science and science fiction. Look up Tom Lehrer, Voltaire, Tom Smith, Marc Gunn and Rob Balder on YouTube to get an idea. Take a look a my favorites on http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009#g/f for math related filk and http://www.youtube.com/cistheta2007#g/f for computing related filk!
So, 4 weeks ago I showed this video to my students to get the tune into their heads.
Then, 3 weeks ago, I showed them this video to get the tune into their brains for good!
Last week, I gave them the words:
A Stable Connection
To the tune of "Rainbow Connection"
by Paul Williams & Kenny Ascher
by Paul Williams & Kenny Ascher
Why are there so many lost instant memos,
And badly downloaded files?
Firewalls configured and ports we must forward
So people can’t see inside?
Online there’s gold if you manage to reach it
Through all of the iPods for free…
Someday we’ll find it, a stable connection,
The hackers, the coders and me.
And badly downloaded files?
Firewalls configured and ports we must forward
So people can’t see inside?
Online there’s gold if you manage to reach it
Through all of the iPods for free…
Someday we’ll find it, a stable connection,
The hackers, the coders and me.
Who said that every ping would be heard and answered
When sent down your cable line?
Somebody 419s, and someone believes it,
Now spam chokes the mail grapevine…
Warcraft expandeth to suck up our bandwidth
So orcs can grow cute little trees,
Someday we’ll find it, a stable connection,
The gamers, the lamerz and me…
Cable or ADSL,
I’m sure it’s a marketing hat trick…
When sent down your cable line?
Somebody 419s, and someone believes it,
Now spam chokes the mail grapevine…
Warcraft expandeth to suck up our bandwidth
So orcs can grow cute little trees,
Someday we’ll find it, a stable connection,
The gamers, the lamerz and me…
Cable or ADSL,
I’m sure it’s a marketing hat trick…
Have you been on the verge of scoring a cyber,
Then dropped out and lost your mate?
Have you successfully completed a torrent?
Well neither have I, to date…
I’ve pinged out too many times to ignore it,
Even when on a T3…
Someday we’ll find it, a stable connection,
The flamers, the fanboys and me…
Then dropped out and lost your mate?
Have you successfully completed a torrent?
Well neither have I, to date…
I’ve pinged out too many times to ignore it,
Even when on a T3…
Someday we’ll find it, a stable connection,
The flamers, the fanboys and me…
La, da da deee da da daa,
La la la la la dee daa doooooooo…
This week we recorded the video for YouTube, using the webcam from my Dell Studio 1710 Multimedia Laptop, with Rob Balder singing in the background. You can get an audio clip of Rob Balder singing "A Stable Connection" fromLa la la la la dee daa doooooooo…
www.themadmusicarchive.com/audio/devospice/manicmondays0070.mp3
or buy the CD "For Amusement Only" from http://www.thefump.com/artist.php?id=5.
The first version of the video below is embedded from YouTube after I converted it from *.avi to *.mp4 via http://www.zamzar.com for upload to YouTube. The second version is the original *.avi file from my webcam. The third version is an *.mp4 file I made using http://www.keepvid.com to download it from my YouTube page!
I didn't post all the recordings on YouTube (all 5 classes participated) as my mic was not working correctly. Well, the mic wasn't too bad 1st period, so you'll see that sample recording above! However, "if at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again!" So, we'll be back.... BTW, stay tuned, in the weeks to come there's going to be a lot of preCalculus and Calculus related filk and carols!
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